1. The feasts have testified that you are their feast,
With you, the lonely one yearned and the distant one drew near.

2. Its darkness was illuminated, its fright took wing,
The disobedient obeyed, the severe softened.

3. The world has described to us its prime long passed,
In the wake of its exuberant youth.

4. The sea was never as frozen as the day before yours,
Now its frigidity melts with the dew.

5. The winds blow favorably with wishes,
Its downpours perpetually cascading with life.

6. It may storm, yet we have of its lightning and thunder
Only the passions of its flashes and its rumbles.

7. Your home found comfort on the plains of Mecca
For the advent of days, their promise drawing nigh-

8. Of processions whose steeds hastened to you
And brigades whose standards fluttered high,

9. Yearning for your call which their zealots have long
Sustained, and their altruists spent themselves thereby.

10. It consecrated those in pilgrim garb, and its riders converged,
Its pilgrims and delegations flocked and vied.

11. Now the world has fulfilled for us its promise,
And for it, its fright and threats subside.

12. When the throne was rightfully yours, and atop it
The champions of your appointers, their might and pride,

13. Their brilliance, glory, loyalty, regiments and swords,
When the caliphate adorned itself with its crown bedight.

14. Its ornaments glittered, greatest of boons you were given,
Crown prince of the Muslims, their increase and their guide.

15. You surpass horizons so he grasps and contains them,
You scale lofty peaks so he scales and provides.

16. If you plant kindness it is a cloud, if you begin
Blessings their source is he, if you unlatch prosperity he steers it,

17. If you inaugurate fortune he facilitates it,
If you build eminence he builds it stride by stride.

18. And if a blossom of praises ornaments a garden,
He tends it, and if aggressors trespass refuges,

19. He is the excellent defender, fending them off.
His nature was birthed from the celestial pole on high,

20. The steeds were assigned to him, he leads them by.
The full moon destined him with a lineage

21. That ruled over all lords, they will be led thereby.
From you, charms crept to entrance him in horizons,

22. He spent generously, which they provide.
You adorned him in the garbs of fervor and leadership

23. On which swords and armor glittered, pridefully bedight.
Days wherein the countries shone as stars

24. With the domes of your armies, hope their obedient guide,
For three unmarred pilgrimages, their precincts yearned

25. For you, unperturbed by separation's divide.
The pavilion of glorious victory over you both

26. Is raised, piloting the righteous, its ropes untied
Until you ascended the pulpits to a rank

27. Tempting the great souls of men, their envy and their pride,
In the dome of the kingdom which sturdy pillars support,

28. Its columns, panels, galleries, halls and giants abide.
Its elite and allies and loyalists,

29. Its daughters, mothers and lionesses stride.
They shone upon you the night of every misguidance

30. A radiant silver, its gloom will never subside.
A light for those loyal to you, their guide it will be

31. Or fire for those opposing you, their fuel thereby.
You overwhelmed it with your ascent beyond

32. What its fathers and ancestors bequeathed during their time.
And by your offspring it is compensated

33. For its homelands, the yearning of souls thereby residing.
The days of battle, swords proved true to you,

34. On the day of assembly, their pacts thereby abiding.
An hour wherein kinship is severed, neither righteous

35. Witnessed nor acts witnessed, thereby coinciding.
A day wherein the honorable were abased to the vile

36. And the noble stewed with slaves thereby presiding.
Its stalwarts despaired amidst adversity in which

37. Its masters and lords were exhausted thereby biding
No guide to salvation could its course determine

38. Bewildered, nor paragon of propriety its course decide
Until you rose for them at the fairest of days,

39. Upon them your fortunes in the sky rose, thereby riding
So they inhaled the breath of life for souls

40. Who now sipped from the basin, its drafts thereby gliding.
Evident became the confused one's delusions,

41. And the right-minded one now rested in reason residing.
They hastened to pledge allegiance to you

42. Eroding time, and the new replacing thereby.
In it, their Lord's hand was over their hands

43. The writers and keepers bore witness thereby.
They fulfilled it, so it united their throng

44. In a state whose progress the future will guide
It assured them it would not loose its swords

45. In any fray until its pacts came undone thereby.
It quenched them with cups of kindness extinguishing

46. Among them flames, their blaze could not subside.
With its peace, eyes were intimate with slumber,

47. With its safety, gazes gently rested thereby.
And they clasped hands after the swords in harmony

48. Reconciled, affectionate and friendly thereby.
It is an invitation with their swords as its proof,

49. In an allegiance their oaths verify.
And tenets for a law Their struggle realized

50. Their valor and resolve will fortify.
That they struggle in God a true struggle

51. And for their Lord their souls purify.
To increase might through struggle, its mighty one,

52. And its prospered one through conviction magnify.
They swore by their Lord to honor the caliphate

53. Whose bonds he instructed them not to untie.
And by it the rulers of their enemy nations bowed

54. And its tyrant and stubborn thereby comply.
And they entrusted a precipice the battle

55. That felled mountains, their summits thereby razed high.
They trekked to Shabwa whose harvest was nigh

56. The necks of armored men its harvest thereby reaped.
And the valleys of Qantish mustered against them

57. Hordes of rebels, their number cannot quantify.
Their hearts it seems were sickly partial to them

58. So they engaged them with spears accustomed thereby.
They left the plain with its bellies eviscerated

59. And the rebels' corpses the topsoil thereby blanketed.
And the Frankish brigades, as they conspired against you

60. In their factions - God from you defends thereby -
With vessels in a tumultuous sea's swell

61. Flooding the earth's expanse, their cords stretched thereby.
They added its eagle and crow, their patriarch

62. And paragon - their tyrant and pillar thereby.
A mob for their Armenia, mustered thereby

63. To march and thence to hell herded enmasse thereby.
They approached under sharp blades

64. And the Muslim's glory was proclaimed thereby.
After they had crushed spears and settled

65. A dispute, its justice broadcast thereby.
As if their crosses lofted in the shadow

66. Of their crumbling, prostrating thereby.
And beside the west as you boldly approached

67. It unkempt, conquests were announced thereby.
They struck Uhud until it surfaced

68. As a belly, the rebels' corpses its topsoil thereby.
In a fray absolved by their swords that if

69. Their steel melted from intense heat thereby
And in it excuses fell short of a crime

70. Disgraceful, which your palm did not flourish thereby
By it we saw glory wherever you sought it

71. And perpetuity of bounty wherever you steered it
Save your magnanimity which ennobled

72. Its dangers and its ancestors thereby
Panicked that the Days of Ignorance might see it

73. Interred in dirt, forgotten thereby
Ceding those whose deaths it held

74. While withholding those granted eternity thereby
So welcome it, for the virtuous have presented

75. Their worthy praises, no flaw thereby marring it
Innovative compositions whose jewels resemble each other

76. Therein pearls and unmatched verses coincide
And let our days of glory altogether be

77. A feast, and you to those who obeyed, their feast thereby
Time does lapse over your heir apparent

78. Among intimates, their bereavement thereby abiding
If homelands are shrouded he travels captive

79. Or if enemies know, hunted thereby
Without sanctity preventing, nor ordained days

80. Known, nor numbered thereby biding
From a Muslim slain by a transgressor, nor

81. An inviolate soul, the enemies lie in ambush thereby
They defied the Merciful in His sanctuary

82. To violate the sanctities of Muslims, His law thereby rescinding
The swords' edges are kindled white hot for me through you

83. Inflaming entrails, their darkness surges thereby
This is an outrage and a raid witnessed

84. Its impartiality the Musta'sin's love called thereby
And it suffices you from a soul you sufficed its hope

85. A provision demeaned, its plucking facile thereby
It was the singular in its age for calamity

86. Befallen, fate's outcast, its loneliness thereby abiding
And if the envious feigns a flaw to me

87. For invoking you in a renewed favor thereby
I am not one from whom time's eyes desist

88. From blessings or curses while the envious sleeps thereby
And so around my neck are its fetters intact

89. Remaining, and around my legs its shackles thereby